Part 1 Human nature: introductory comment - method and human nature; Mill and human nature - the context, self-culture, free will and liberty, laws of the mind and the science of ethology; instincts; Marx and the "Homo Faber" - the continuity controversy, human nature, the productive individual etc. Part 2 The individual and freedom: introductory comment; Mill and individuality - the elite, the generality and democracy, the principle of liberty, the autonomous individual, happiness and freedom, the elite, the generaltity and rep government; Marx and the individual - Marx on morality and justice, Marxian justice and communist morality, Marx against justice and morality, the "grundrisse", the individual and freedom, the individual, circulation and money, self-determination, social freedom and revolution.